From autobiography to autofiction: A short incursion in the history of a protean genre

Towards the end of the 20th century, the self-writing is taking on increasing importance, while undergoing profound changes at the same time. The desire to renew the autobiographical genre and to adapt it to the new realities of the time led to the invention of a new self-writing, a hybrid and protean form: “autofiction”. Our intention here is to make a short incursion in the history of this new "genre", by examining in particular its evolution, its various configurations, its stakes and its literary, psychological and socio-political conditioning.